Frequency: (353)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: 1. metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle High German tegel, tigel ‘pot’ (from Latin tegula ‘tile’). 2. from a pet form of Dick 4.
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Heinz, Kurt, Reinhold.
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